Tribe Art 2002 comes to Hockenheim.

Launched in London earlier in the year, Tribe Art brings the worlds of art and Formula One together through a new arts initiative from Lucky Strike BAR Honda.

This weekend the motorhome turns art gallery as the exhibition comes to the paddock during the German Grand Prix weekend.

Perhaps the most impressive display of creative talent on show this weekend comes from the team itself, through the sculptures of Chief Mechanic Alastair Gibson and photography of Gearbox Technician Chico Corradini.

In the few precious moments Alastair has free away from his racing duties, he has turned his mechanical skills to sculpting, building sharks from 'lifed' Formula One car parts and other engineering objects. These are exquisitely crafted and sleek beasts, reminiscent of the cars they are made from and amazingly near to being anatomically correct.

Of his unusual hobby Alastair says: "I started making them when I was working in F3000. I made my first one and gave it away. Now I'll sit on an aeroplane, get out a sketch pad and plan my next shark, coming up with new ideas or seeing where a new shape would fit well - it's a great release from the pressures of my day job."

But how does an idea, a sketch and a load of scrap F1 car parts come to resemble a living creature?

"You see a bit that is on the car and think that would be nice for a shark." Alastair reveals. "Then I wait until it's scrap - until we've finished with it or it's run its life and then I keep the bits I can. Change their shape and form and put it on my models. I've loads of bits that I've collected that I want to use in the future. I just need the time."

Team mate Claudio 'Chico' Corradini's equally impressive photography is borne from more than 15 years of experience as an amateur photographer. Inspired by his surroundings at the circuits he visits each season, his work is an intensely vivid look at the natural world, juxtaposed to the technical world in which he works.

But despite his obvious love of nature, it is still perhaps strange that Claudio never considered combining his day job and hobby to join the throng of F1 snappers.

"Well, I have done some motorsport photography before and I enjoyed it", he said. "My pictures even appeared in publications like Autosprint, Rombo and Gazzetta dello Sport. However I prefer a more abstract, artistic approach to photography that can take many hours to achieve - motorsport takes a very different talent and time-scale. Sometimes it is very hard even to tell what my subject matter is. That isn't so important to me. It is more to do with light, colours, texture and composition. Sure, there are opportunities in F1 to do this style of work as well, but not as much. For me landscape photography gives me the scope I need to experiment artistically. And besides, have you seen the competition in F1? The price of a 600mm lens? Landscape photography is simpler and much cheaper!"

The exhibition also features the work of renowned artist Julian Opie. Perhaps most famous for producing the Blur 'best of' album cover that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, Julian turned his attentions to Jacques Villeneuve and Olivier Panis for this one off project, creating 70 metre long friezes of both drivers. While the Lucky Strike BAR Honda motorhome isn't quite roomy enough to take the originals, smaller prints of his work will be on display this weekend.

The fashion photography of Hannes Schmid and award winning film by Philip Albera complete the artistic line up. Philip's film "Pit Stop Honda" won the film of the year award at the Automobile International Festival 2001 and is a tightly edited piece portraying the Lucky Strike BAR Honda pit stop crew at work. Finally, Hannes, a world renowned fashion photographer, was commissioned to photograph both Villeneuve and Panis as 'supermodels' for the exhibition, with some impressive results.

Tribe Art will be unveiled on Thursday in the motorhome